{"id":832,"date":"2011-08-21T22:43:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T04:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/?p=832"},"modified":"2011-08-21T22:43:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T04:43:27","slug":"every-calling-is-great-when-greatly-pursued-oliver-wendell-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"“Every calling is great when greatly pursued” Oliver Wendell Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several days a week Felix Montoya transfers the Latin meaning of his first name, \u201cluck\u201d, \u201cfortunate\u201d, \u201chappy\u201d, to our physical and emotional experience of Roosevelt Park. Among the\u00a0 Parks and Recreation crew that holds up the 3-year long, $2.8 million renovation of our Civil Works Administration-era park is this particularly noteworthy individual. Mr. Montoya combs\u00a0the slopes of Roosevelt with his stroller bag and \u201cpicker upper\u201d tool, empties trash receptacles, removes fallen limbs, supplies the doggie bag dispensers and reports irrigation problems. And he is delighted to be doing it as his third career, with his own GMC truck. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Finely tuned for multiple uses, William Perkin\u2019s excellent landscape renovation, a Sustainable Sites Initiative Project (http:\/\/www.sustainablesites.org\/pilot_projects\/<\/a>), brought us back to Roosevelt in 2007 with our families, our dogs and last but not least, with our trash. Chronic garbage overflow, despite the best efforts of most to pitch in, immediately deteriorated park time (dogs disagree: yum, chicken bones) and threatened to drive away the critical mass of citizens needed to keep all corners of the 13 acre park a friendly, welcoming oasis.<\/p>\n

That threat was nimbly wiped away by Area Supervisor Dianna Solano-Savage\u2019s decision to hire Mr. Montoya. \u201cI started at Roosevelt with the Parks Department last July (2010). It is so nice here in the cool summer mornings under the trees. My doctor asked me \u2018what are you doing, Felix? You are so healthy!’ The only thing different is that I walk all the time in my new job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Montoya was raised in San Mateo, NM, on the western foothills of Mt.Taylor where primary school included outside art classes and surreptitious hunts for pinon with pals. He graduated from Albuquerque High in 1956 and remembers when the south edge of Roosevelt Park was used informally as a dumping area. \u201cThe cars would pull right up here and people would toss things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Tiguex Park, Martinez\u00a0Town I, and Old Town Plaza are also under Mr. Montoya\u2019s care. Please thank him when you see him and please let the Parks and Recreation Department know that you value his work by calling (505) 768-5300 or 311.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Several days a week Felix Montoya transfers the Latin meaning of his first name, \u201cluck\u201d, \u201cfortunate\u201d, \u201chappy\u201d, to our physical and emotional experience of Roosevelt Park. Among the\u00a0 Parks and Recreation crew that holds up the 3-year long, $2.8 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everybody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverhillabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}